My brother-in-law, a man now 55, obese, and for over three years living on SNAP/unemployment extensions/his two years' deceased mother's reverse mortgage home in foreclosure (no one, not even GNNDs, wants it, as it needs a roof, septic system, and bearing walls dry rot fixed inter alia) was ecstatic to learn unemployment benefits have AGAIN been made available to him; after all, just weeks ago a local cannery turned him down for failing an unchallenged THC test, so no "summer work" for this lifelong "beach bum"...don't worry, anyone...he'll never read this, and even if he did and figured it out, I have so much legal "cootie" stuff on him he'd never press an issue. Anyway, he's also the kind who lost his own home nine years ago and told mom's neighbors he "rented it out to come help mom", moved in with mom and an adult sister, all of whom then lived off the HECM without repairs to property (tax payments now years in arrears but nobody evicts due to condition of property); when mom died two years ago, they put the house up for sale at a few thousand above HECM outstanding, split up mom's cars and property without probate, and so on. They and their local realtor last year conned my wife and I into coming out to do house/grounds refurbishing but even then, the in-laws get in the way on greedy unemployed worries of some mythical "share" of sale if any...which worries ought to stop, because I'm pulling the plug on helping narcissists who think such help is an "annoyance".

Truly, from my own experience, I KNOW people like the GOP claimed existed on eternal UI benefits really DO exist...slugs who'll never think of anybody but themselves, never help a parent they live with, and so on, just going to bars and sporting events and tattoo parlors and such for pure hedonism...people who probably hate the fact they ever had to work at anything at all, period.

Indeed, there SHOULD be SOME mechanism whereby parasites ARE weeded from State SWA and related governmental benefit programs, instead of lumping them in with more normative majorities of the work force. Indeed, even I would love to see ANY peaceable, erstwhile immigrant GET a job if the choice were between them and someone wanting work just long enough to "earn" sympathy benefits.

But the problem is, with JUST yet another unemployment insurance extension, and no fleshed-out jobs creation programs, all USA government has done is certify that most of the diverse USA unemployed work force is idle through no choice or fault of its own, this has only been added to for years even under Obama, and for the rest of this year no reason exists to believe anything will change (except, perhaps, that even MORE will be unemployed as housing continues to force out places TO work at).

So just like it's nice Obama has had this and that nominee, an oil spill, a sweeping finance bill, a stock market that "sings" because iPods are up, and all the other things done so far, not one bit of it has positively changed or is reasonably/rationally expected to turn mass personal economies around...not for "old immigrants", USA nationals, or any newer immigrants.

Just pointing this autonomous fact coincidence out for the benefit of those living abroad, who may hear that when even someone like me questions governmental success, I'm just being "racist" or "nationalistic" or "epigenetic" or whatever...to reiterate, I have and will always favor ANY peaceable erstwhile person on earth for a real job over ANY deadbeat or slacker, but the latest renewal of unemployment extensions suggests that neither erstwhile USA nationals, current immigrants, or immigrants about to arrive have any realistic expectation of work or trade opportunities appearing anywhere in the near future...which won't help keep folks current, through no fault of their own, on mortgages and such which HUD has made it way too simple to foreclose upon.